The Tradeskill Beta Buffer's recipe books are inconsistently numbered. The Advanced books are 1, 2, 3, ... 10, the regular books are 01, 02, 03, ... 10. The latter scheme does present the books in order in the list, but they should all be one way or the other.

Looking at Armor.... Plate VS Chain... I see Mit and Block on Chain, But Block only on Plate.. Where is the Tank Armor with Mit on it for MC? I am specifically looking at Academic Plate Armor with No Extra Mitigation Stats for Tanks.

I compared the armor from Tishan's Lockbox, the Student Handcrafted, and the Academic Mastercrafted. The handcrafted is definitely better than Tishan's Lockbox, and the Academic is much better than the others, which seems like the correct progression... EXCEPT that Tishan's Lockbox gear has more mitigation than the Student Handcrafted, which seems wrong.

I crafted 5 of each type of armor I had in my new recipe books, and plunked them on the broker. The Mastercrafted I made with refined rares. Get yours now! I hope that folks will be able to offer feedback on the crafted gear if they use it.

“Looking at Armor.... Plate VS Chain... I see Mit and Block on Chain, But Block only on Plate.. Where is the Tank Armor with Mit on it for MC? I am specifically looking at Academic Plate Armor with No Extra Mitigation Stats for Tanks.”

I just made one of everything. Some of the Academic Plate has mit, some has block. There are four "flavors".

I'm using the metallic reptile hide backpacks from the beta buffers in my broker slots. The toon is Sigrdrifa, if you want to look at it from her perspective. All the Student stuff I passed through the bank to Alfsvarta, and it all stacked Just Fine for her on her broker...

stats:
DPS doesn't change on the Academic's Chain/Plate Greaves of Rage compared to the Student's Chain/Plate Greaves of Rage (it's in all 4 cases 280.4 DPS). It's the only stat that doesn't change between handcrafted and mastercrafted.

No changes on the stats part:
DPS doesn't change on the Academic's Chain/Plate Greaves of Rage compared to the Student's Chain/Plate Greaves of Rage (it's in all 4 cases 280.4 DPS for adventurer or merc). It's the only stat that doesn't change between handcrafted and mastercrafted.

Is there any point to the merc only gear?
It has the exact same stats and crafting requirements as the plate adventure gear ( and of course merc can wear plate adventure gear so that makes the merc version worthless?)
Or are stats for merc only gear still in process of being changed?